Political party funds to be spent transparently and audited accounts of parties to be made public and submitted to the Election Commission, which will have the authority to scrutinize such accounts and publish them in its website.

Year
2025
Reform Domain
Electoral Process Electoral Process
Sub Domain
Registration of Political Parties
Source of Reform Proposals
Electoral Reform Commission
Reform Proposed
Reform Proposed
Reform Initiated
Reform Initiated
Legal and Policy Framework
Legal and Policy Framework
Operationalisation
Operationalisation
Action Implementation
Action Implementation
Stage of Implementation
Reform Proposed
Reform Proposed
Last Update: 14-Dec-25
This reform proposal has been articulated in the Electoral Reform Commission Report, but has yet to be officially initiated.
Reform Initiated
Reform Initiated
Last Update: 14-Dec-25
The reform has been partially initiated through amendments to the RPO. Article 44CC has been revised to require political parties to publish donation details transparently on their official websites. However, the amendment does not fully incorporate the broader proposal regarding public auditing of party accounts and scrutiny and publication by the Election Commission. The revised Article 44CC now reads as follows: “44CC. (1) Every political party setting up any candidate for election shall maintain proper account of all its income and expenditure for the period from the date of publication of notification under clause (1) of Article 11 till the completion of elections in all the constituencies in which it has set up candidates and such account shall show clearly the amount received by it as donation above taka five thousand from any candidate or any person seeking nomination or from any other person or source giving their names and addresses and the amount received from each of them and the mode of receipt [and these details of the list of amounts received as donations must be transparently published on the political party's official website.
Legal and Policy Framework
Legal and Policy Framework
Last Update: 14-Dec-25
Article 44CC has been revised to require political parties to publish donation details transparently on their official websites. The revised Article 44CC now reads as follows: “44CC. (1) Every political party setting up any candidate for election shall maintain proper account of all its income and expenditure for the period from the date of publication of notification under clause (1) of Article 11 till the completion of elections in all the constituencies in which it has set up candidates and such account shall show clearly the amount received by it as donation above taka five thousand from any candidate or any person seeking nomination or from any other person or source giving their names and addresses and the amount received from each of them and the mode of receipt [and these details of the list of amounts received as donations must be transparently published on the political party's official website].”
Observation
    The reform has been partially initiated through amendments to the RPO. However, the amendment does not fully incorporate the broader proposal regarding public auditing of party accounts and scrutiny and publication by the Election Commission. A similar proposal is included in the July Charter. 32 negotiating political parties and alliances have agreed to this proposal.
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